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most of the plants we collected in our journey. I hope you will in- 
dulge me if I trouble you in this way once in a while. 
I remain Sir, with the greatest respect, etc., yours, 
JouHNn ToRREY. 
If there is any young botanist in your society that would be willing 
to commence botanical correspondence and exchange of specimens 
with me, I should be very glad to commence one immediately. 
To Zaccueus Cox.iys, Esq., Philadelphia. : 
§ 85. Acanthospermum xanthoides, DC.—This plant was 
discovered in Atlanta, Ga., last Summer, by Mr. T. B. Goulding, 
an active botanist of that city. It was growing in fields and way- 
sides, thoroughly established. It is native in the West Indies, but 
nowhere recorded as spontaneous in the United States. 
Clerodendrum Siphonanthus, #. Br.—This splendid plant is 
sent us from Macon, Ga., by Dr. G. M. Green. He reports that it 
has propagated itself in and around the gardens of Macon for sev- 
eral years past, no one knowing its name or whence it eame. It is 
atall perennial, with oblong entire leaves, flowers in whorled cymes, 
with cup-shaped purple calyx, yellow-orange tubular funnel-form 
corolla 5’ or 6’ in length, and long-exserted stamens (4) and style. 
It is a member of the Order Verbenacex, and native in the East 
Indies. A. Woop. 
§ 86. Clitoria Mariana, Z.—In the Flora of the State, Dr. 
Torrey records this beautiful plant as growing “on sandy soil on a: 
bushy hill-side about half a mile from the South Ferry, Brooklyn.” 
This locality has long been swallowed up in the city, and botanists 
have in vain searched the neighboring parts of Long Island for 
another.’ We are happy to report that it may still be found in the 
vicinity of New York, though in another State. September 234, 
1871, we explored with a friend Little Snake Hill, an insulated knoll : 
of trap, in the midst of the Hackensack flats and difficult of access. 
We found there Soledago rigida, L., and the beautiful grass, MuAl- 
enbergia capillaris, Kunth (Butt. Vol. IL, § 68), and an upright 
bean-like plant, in fruit, which we carelessly put away as Phaseolus » 
perennis, Walt. We were unacquainted at that time with the fruit 
of this Phaseolus and that of Clitoria, Recently consulting Dr. 
Gray about this extraordinary Phaseolus we were kindly set right. 
This locality in our Catalogue, therefore, needs to be corrected. 
There was a considerable number of plants in one spot. We trust 
that those who seek it there will gather it sparingly and help to pre- 
serve it from extermination. Dr. Torrey describes the seed, * the 
size of small peas, covered with a glutinous kind of varnish, brown, 
the hilum small and roundish.” The seeds in our herbarium seem as 
glutinous as when they were gathered more than four years ago. 
Erratum.—§ 77, for ‘‘ H. L. Warne,” read ‘‘H. A.pWarne.” 
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